Full-Cycle Game Production
Concept, vertical slice, production, and launch under one roof. We own the milestone plan, the build pipeline, and the day-one patch so your title ships stable across storefronts.
from £180,0009–24 month engagements
Game development studio — Shoreditch, London
We build worlds that outlast the credits roll.
ShadowRelicBase is an independent studio crafting original titles, bespoke engine tooling, and co-development for teams shipping on PC, console, and mobile. From first prototype to launch patch, we treat every frame like an exhibit.
12 titles shipped
Unreal & Unity partners
What we do
Studio services
Four disciplines, one pipeline. Engaged individually or end to end, each with a fixed scope, a named lead, and weekly playable builds.
Engine & Tools Development
Custom Unreal and Unity tooling — procedural editors, save systems, netcode harnesses, and CI build farms — that turn a fragile prototype into a pipeline your team can push to daily.
from £24,0006–14 week sprints
Co-Development & Porting
Drop-in strike team for combat design, gameplay systems, and console certification. We plug into your Perforce or Git, hit your milestones, and pass Nintendo, Sony, and Xbox cert on the first submission.
from £14,500 / monthRolling monthly retainer
Art & Narrative Direction
Art bibles, key concept plates, and branching narrative design that hold up under 4K crops. We define the look and the lore, then hand you production-ready references and a style guide.
from £9,8004–10 week packages
Selected work
Portfolio
A cross-section of shipped titles and vertical slices from the last four release cycles. Full case studies available on request.
Relic Vault
Action-adventure — PC & console, 2025
Ashfall Tactics
Turn-based strategy — PC, 2024
Neon Tideline
Roguellike — Switch & mobile, 2024
Hollow Signal
First-person horror — PC, 2023
The people
Meet the studio
A tight core of twenty-eight across Shoreditch and remote — game directors, engineers, and artists who have shipped on every major platform.
Marcus Ellery
Studio Director & Creative Lead
Priya Nadkarni
Technical Director, Engine
Tomas Lindqvist
Art Director
Grace Osei
Lead Gameplay Engineer
Daniel Reyes
Narrative Director
Yuki Tanaka
Lead Producer
Hannah Whitmore
Head of QA & Certification
Oliver Bright
Audio Director
Voices
What partners say
Feedback from publishers and studio partners we have shipped alongside. Play the reel or read the notes below.
Studio sizzle reel — 2:14, 2025
ShadowRelicBase took a stalled prototype and delivered a certified console build in four months. Their engine team rebuilt our save system in a fortnight — first Sony submission passed clean.
The vertical slice they produced won us our Series A. Investors could actually play the pitch. Milestones hit to the day, weekly builds every Friday without fail.
Their co-dev strike team owned our combat overhaul. Frame budget held on Switch, and the narrative pass they added gave the whole thing a spine we did not have before.
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Good to know
Frequently asked questions
The questions publishers and founders ask us most before an engagement.
Working together
Most projects open with a paid two-week discovery sprint where we scope the milestone plan and build a throwaway prototype. From there we move into fixed-milestone production with weekly playable builds. You get a named producer and direct Slack access to the leads throughout.
Both. Our default is a fixed fee against defined milestones, but for the right original IP we will consider a blended fee-plus-revenue-share arrangement. We are happy to talk structure once we understand the scope and your funding runway.
Technical
We ship primarily on Unreal Engine 5 and Unity, and we hold active developer relationships with Nintendo, Sony, and Xbox. We handle PC (Steam and Epic), all current-gen consoles, and iOS/Android. Bespoke or in-house engines are possible on longer engagements.
We work in your Perforce or Git repositories, or stand up a hardened one for you. All original code and assets we produce are assigned to you on final payment, with a clear schedule of any third-party middleware licences you inherit.
Practical
Yes. Our studio is on Leonard Street in Shoreditch and we welcome partners on-site for kick-offs, milestone reviews, and playtests. Day-to-day we run a hybrid model with most of the team in two or three days a week.
The studio operates Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 6:00pm GMT. We schedule overlap windows for partners in North American and Asia-Pacific time zones, and QA runs extended hours during certification and launch weeks.
Get in touch
Start a project
Tell us about your title, your platform targets, and your timeline. We reply to every serious enquiry within two working days.
Studio details
Phone
+44 20 7739 1467Studio
58 Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 4BY
Email
[email protected]Hours
Mon–Fri, 9:30am–6:00pm GMT
Leonard Street, Shoreditch — five minutes from Old Street station